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user-inactivated · 3411 days ago · link · · parent · post: Eating chicken is morally worse than killing Cecil the lion
"The priest tells them..."It seems to me that you only pardon the sins that you don’t really think sinful. You only forgive criminals when they commit what you don’t regard as crimes, but rather as conventions. You forgive a conventional duel just as you forgive a conventional divorce. You forgive because there isn’t anything to be forgiven.